'Comfort woman' film released in Japan

'Comfort woman' film released in Japan

This photo provided by at9 Film shows the poster for "Kim Bok-dong," a documentary film on the late former Korean sex slave. The film, directed by South Korea's Song Won-geun, will be released in eight cities in Japan in the coming months, starting with a premiere in Tokyo on Jan. 21. The documentary tells the story of Kim's 27-year struggle up to her death in January 2019 to get an apology from Japan for its wartime sexual slavery of hundreds of thousands of women, mostly Koreans, euphemistically called "comfort women." Such women were forcibly taken to front-line brothels for Japanese soldiers during World War II. (PHOTO NOT FOR SALE) (Yonhap)

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